The International Vanadium Symposium is a

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international event. The symposium is an interdisciplinary event for a wide range of chemistry researchers that share interest in

vanadium Vanadium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol V and atomic number 23. It is a hard, silvery-grey, malleable transition metal. The elemental metal is rarely found in nature, but once isolated artificially, the formation of an ...

research to network and share ideas. The first meeting of the International Vanadium Symposium occurred in 1997 in Cancun, Mexico, and the most recent meeting was in Lisbon, Portugal in 2023.

Meetings

*1997: Cancun *1999:

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*2001:

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*2004:

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*2006:

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*2008:

Lisbon Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan ...

*2010:

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*2012:

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*2014:

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*2016:

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*2018:

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*2020:

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*2023:

Vanadis Award

The Vanadis Award is an international award that is presented to a researcher involved in vanadium research at the International Vanadium Symposium. The award is given to a researcher that has performed innovative research, developed new applications, has a large influence, a wide research scope, and has served for the advancement of vanadium science.

Recipients

*2004: Debbie C. Crans *2006: Dieter Rheder *2008: Toshikazu Hairo *2010: Vincent Pecoraro *2012: Israel Wachs *2014: João Costa Pessoa *2016: Ron Wever and Tamas Kiss *2018: Armando Pombeiro *2021(Given retroactively in 2023): Alison Butler *2023: Dinorah Gambino

Notable People

As of the 11th International Vanadium Symposium meeting, Dr. Dinorah Gambino served as chair. Some notable speakers from the most recent conference (2018) are Debbie C. Crans of

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, Miguel Bañares of the

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, Peter Lay from the

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, Alison Butler of

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, Hiroaki Sasai from

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, and João Costa Pessoa from

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References

External links

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